Paper 4, Section II, H
Part II, 2010
Let be a field of characteristic , and assume that contains a primitive cubic root of unity . Let be an irreducible cubic polynomial, and let be its roots in the splitting field of over . Recall that the Lagrange resolvent of is defined as .
(i) List the possibilities for the group , and write out the set in each case.
(ii) Let . Explain why must be roots of a quadratic polynomial in . Compute this polynomial for , and deduce the criterion to identify through the element of .